I'm listening to a great 70's soft classic, "Here Comes That Rainy Day Feeling Again" by The Fortunes, what a great song with good images. The post here on Hamilton, Joe Frank, and Reynolds, got me listening to some soft rock classics on YouTube. I really love this genre, others I like are The Turtles, Grass Roots, The Rascals, and so forth. Really, well-written, fun tunes.
One of the posters on The Fortunes tune wrote this, which I thought was interesting and insightful:
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Answer - KILLED by the music industry long ago!!..Because "they" really want societal or cultural DIVISION, they PURPOSELY SHUN promoting "middle-of-the-road" friendly rock style songs ..like this classic tune from the Fortunes.. that elicits a feeling of peace or togetherness for the masses!..Instead, the "extreme", controversial, & divisive styles like rap or "power-metal" is favored by the WICKED "music"[[sic) industry to promote artistic/cultural animosity and "SEPARATISM".
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Boy, I think he hit it spot on. Not only do I not hear anything like The Turtles or Mamas & Papas anymore, I also don't hear stuff like Stylistics, Spinners, Fifth Dimension, Main Ingredient, all of Motown, Hall & Oates, Chi-Lites, etc. And I'm referring to hit music on the radio and popular music in general, not some good stuff on CD Baby.
I don't understand why the music industry thinks the only people who buy music are teens? I mean heck, Elton John and Paul McCartney are still the top concert sellers.
I know, I often have a rant on the music industry, so be it. I miss the old, catchy tunes with messages in them.
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